The most common pattern for using Docker to build and deploy software in an image uses a single Dockerfile to build the software and produce the image that gets deployed. The basic pattern goes: FROM base-image RUN install-some-extra-build-tools COPY . /build-directory RUN /build-directory/build-my-software CMD /run/my/software This works, but you end up with a great deal […]
Kubernetes (AKA “k8s”) From kubernetes.io: Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of “labels” and “pods”, it groups the containers which make up an application into […]
At FP Complete, we’re no strangers to running complex web services. But we know from experience that the simplest service to maintain is one someone else is managing for you. A few days ago I described how secure package distribution with stackage-update and stackage-install works, focusing on the client side tooling. Today’s blog post is […]